Why wasn’t Barritt shown a red card?

CAN someone explain why Brad Barritt wasn’t red-carded for his swinging arm tackle on Exeter’s Geoff Parling last Sunday?

He should have gone along with Richard Barrington for the double foul tackle on Parling. How different was Barritt’s tackle from Dylan Hartley’s on Leinster’s Sean O’Brien?

And for Sarries Mark McCall to say both tackles were accidental is a joke. He later claimed that the tackles were neither reckless nor dangerous. With all the latest publicity on the protection of players against serious head injury, how can a responsible director of rugby claim that?

Saracens may be the blue-eyed boys of the Premiership right now, but even they have to play by the rules. JOHN OAKENFULL Horton, Northampton